Community Webs Conference Presentations
Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM)
Conference Date and Location: October 9-12, 2017, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
Presentation Title: Community Webs, Creating Community History Web Archives
Presenters: Sylvie Rollason-Cass, Internet Archive, and Natalie Milbrodt, Queens Public Library
Description and related links: Many public libraries have active local history collections and have traditionally collected print materials that document their communities. The ascension of the web as the primary publishing platform, however, has led to this material now being published exclusively on the web. Due to the technical challenges of archiving the web, the lack of training and educational opportunities, and the lack of an active community of public library-based practitioners, very few public libraries are building web archives. This session will review the Internet Archive’s new program, funded by IMLS, which provides education, training, professional networking, and technical services to enable public libraries to fulfill this vital role. Listen to the talk here http://www.sustainableheritagenetwork.org/digital-heritage/community-webs-creating-community-history-web-archives
Endangered Data Week
Date and Location: March 1, 2018, Brooklyn NY
Title: Saving Local News on the Web
Presenters: Diana Bowers-Smith, Brooklyn Public Library, Cate Corcoran, Brownstoner, John Del Signore, Formerly of Gothamist
More information: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/panel-discussion-saving-central-library-info-030118
Personal Digital Archiving
Conference Date and Location: April 23-25, 2018, Houston TX
Presentation Title: Curators Needed: How Public Libraries are Bringing Community Members into their Web Archiving Practice
Presenters: Natalie Milbrodt – Queens Public Library, Emily Ward – East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Karl Blumenthal – Internet Archive
Description: Public libraries have long served their communities as stewards of local history. They have traditionally collected print materials that document their regions, but the movement towards increasingly digital and personal publishing has left gaps in the historical record—gaps in the memory of who these communities are, how they communicate, and what they may learn from one another. Due to technical challenges and lack of available training, few public libraries build archives of community history as it is represented on the World Wide Web in particular, though the web has for many years now been where community members connect and share. In 2017, the Internet Archive received grants for a two-year “Community Webs” project to address this gap in collections and services by providing education, training, and tools to enable 27 public libraries to build collections of historically-valuable, web-published materials documenting their local communities. Speakers representing two of these libraries will discuss how they approach the curatorial and outreach challenges related to building localized special collections representative of the diverse populations that they serve. In particular, they will demonstrate how they include both internal stakeholders at their institutions as well as public stakeholders in the selection process of archiving community websites. They will share the digital literacy takeaways from sessions offered to the public and the lessons taken forward in the planning of future sessions.
More information: http://sites.lib.uh.edu/pda18/
Society of California Archivists
Conference Date and Location: April 11-13, Yosemite, CA
Conference Title: Community Webs: Empowering Public Librarians to Create Community History Web Archives
Presenters: Dana Bullinger, Henderson Libraries, Kelly Riddle, County of Los Angeles Public Library, Maria Praetzellis, Internet Archive, Mary Haberle, Internet Archive, Mel Gooch, San Francisco Public Library
Description and related links: Californian and Nevada participants in the IMLS-funded national project Community Webs: Empowering Public Librarians to Create Community History Web Archives will explore project management, collaboration and outreach in the context of preserving 35 terabytes of community web archives. Representatives from the Internet Archive will share details related to their project management role, including providing a national cohort with training and technical support on the Archive-It web application. Panelists representing the Los Angeles County Public Library, San Francisco Public Library, Henderson District Public Library and Internet Archive, will discuss how they approached the curatorial and outreach challenges related to building localized special collections representative of the diverse urban populations they serve.
More information: http://www.calarchivists.org/agm2018
Society of American Archivists
Conference Date and Location: August 12-18, 2018, Washington, DC
Conference Title: Community Webs: Empowering Public Librarians to Create Community History Web Archives
Presenters: Anke Voss, The Urbana Free Library, Chatham Ewing, Cleveland Public Library, Diana Bowers-Smith, Brooklyn Public Library, Maria Praetzellis, Internet Archive, Natalie Milbrodt, Queens Public Library, Paul Kelly, DC Public Library, Susan Goldstein- San Francisco Public Library,
More information: https://www2.archivists.org/am2018